The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
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for teeth.
THE town of waquoit, Mass, has not Demo
cratic voter in it.
OF the 1871 churches in the city of Edinburgh
12i are Presbyterian.
PROHIBITION is the local law in 275 Massachu-
sets towns and villages this year.
A PIANO over a century old and still playable
only fetched 81 at Reading (Pa) SALE
ITALIANS are engaged IN making cheese out
of tomato pulp at Burlington IN. j. canning
house.
THERE arc over zoe children in the United
States between and IL years old whose lives
are insured.
AN International literary congress will be
opened at Madrid on Oct. by the Queen of
Spain.
A STEEL COMPANY of Chicago reports that they
turned out in one day recently S621a gross tons
of steel rails
SOFT WOOD compressed by hydraulic machin-
cry is reported to be a useful substitute for box
wood for the manufacture of loom shuttles.
THE FIRST WILL of an Indian ever fied in the
courts of Washington Territory was recently
admitted to probate at Tacoma. His name was
Milton Fisher. He died on the PuyalIlp reSer-
walton six months ago.
a COLORED BLACKSMITH WHO WOEkS cNCiy ooy
at his forge, and who is 100 years old, is resi-
dent of Ozan, Ark His name is Perkins He
was sold on the block in New Orleans and
taken to Arkansas in 1870
THERE is said to be a BARRIERS sign near the
Palais Royal, in Paris, bearing the legend in the
vernacular of, "Callileucocapillaire water,
which colors the hair white. For the use of
magistrates and young physicians"
AEILINE DYES, according to Prof. Watson
Smith, are being more and more used every
year, and last year their consumption increased
more than 33 per cent. They have nearly
driven every other dye stuff, with the exception
of indigo and logwood, out of the market.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the editor of the Quincy
Ofich) Herald, who is also a preacher: I'VE
will marry the first licensed couple who applies
to u.s. free of charge, send them copy of the
Quincy Herald one year for nothing. and if they
are not then satisfied we will throw in good
sized chrome in the bargain"
A TWELVE POUND CANNON SHOT was found inn
beded seventeen inches deep in an oak tree in
the suburbs of Franklin, Tenn. 1t was evidently
fired from Federal cannon during the bloody
battle twenty-three years ago, as it entered the
tree on the side next to the town. The fibers of
the oak are still attached to the ball, and are
nearly as hard as the iron ITSELF
THE news that the Pope has aked the Propa-
ganda to tender forthwith for the contract of
which is at present in the market, the contract
price being 10000 acres of land, reminds us
once more how smart a man is now in charge of
the Catholic church. If the Trappsts make a
success of the aborignes they will deserve their
1000 acres and more besides.
A RECENT copy of the London Sporting Life
printed this advertisements BIRD singing,
Windsor castle. Windsor street, Essex road. A
free linnet handicap, three pairs of birds, for a
leg of mutton will take place at the above house
on Saturday next, Sept g. Birds on the nail at
$50 D. m Entries close and draw on Friday
night at O'Clock. n. B.-The Irish giant is
now staying with the proprietor and may be
teen daily at the bar
THE assessed valuation of property in Denver
for 1887 is, according to the abstract of the as
sessment, $35, 414.545. In view of the fact that
Denver is only thirty years old and started with
| nothing, except the little that the pioneers
brought with them in their wagons, 1t is evident
| that somebody has been making money. There
has been an average increase of considerably
| over $1,000.000 per year. The population of
| Denver is about $4,000.
ROLLING OUT continuous iron chains from the
| solid bar without welding would seem almost
impossible from mechanical point of view, but
| is stated the feat has been accomplished -Four
| rolls are employed, and they are so arranged as
| to form links at right angles to each other AS
| the bar passes from the rolls the thin feather
| edge which is left on the inside of the link is
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barrel finishes the chain ready for market. IL d.
THOUSANDS OF SWALLOWS have made theil
nests in two old smoke stacks ar the foot OF
Mill street, Paterson. n. j., and people in the
| neighborhood wonder how so many can live il
| such a small space. At the first streak of dawI
they emerge in great flock that resem bles 9
| cloud of smoke and take their flight eastward
| evidently in the direction of the Hackensacl
meadows, where millions of them can be seer
during the day time. Each night they return.
FRoMa report published in the Nouveltes An
males de Ia Construction, the total area of the
streets of Paris measured between the curbs
| amounted at the end of 1886 to S.517. 100 square
metres (91, SIS, 065 square feet, of which $3.50,
900 square metres are laid in granite, sos, 10(
square metres macadamized, 100000 square
metres asphalted and $50, 900 square metres pro
| vided with wood pavement. The cost last veal
for relaying and repairs amounted TO IL 900 000f
| (e440,000. To put all the streets of Paris
| into thorough order would require about IS,
900, 000f. Ca, 100000 of which 1900 900 would
have to be. spent in changing macadam
| lied roads into pavement, and 100000 il
improving existing pavements
IT appears from official statistics that on Jan
1 in the present year one person in every thirty
four of the population of England and Wales
was a pauper. On that day SD 2i5 persons
men, women and chidren-were receiving relie
under the present poor law, 201, 59S being indoor
| and 620,517 outdoor paupers, while 100 received
number more than 10000 were insane, while
| about 1867 900 were too infirIn to be classed a.
able bodied, and $4,000 were children under II
years Of age. In 1910, however, the figures
were much more appalling. Then, with much
smaller population. over l. 200, 600 persons were
| relieved, The number has been steadily de
creasing since, though still frightfully large.
EXPERIMENTS are being made at Cap de Ii
| Heve, near the mouth of the Seine, on the pro
duction of electricity for lighthouse purposes by
| means of the force obtained by windmills. The
suggestion to do so was made by the Due d,
| Feltre, and it is system proposed by him thai
| is to be tested. The wind works dynamo cleo
| trio machine employed in charging accumulation,
| of suitable capacity. The electricity so produced
| and stored is to be used at will 10 make foclil
| of light. The system, if successful will have
| the advantage of costing only the putting up OF
| the machinery. The whole question to be ascer
| tanned is whether a sufficient quantity of cleo
| tricity can be stored to provide for the require
| ments of any particular station when there is nc
| wind to move the sails of the mill. NJ de lAngle
| Beaumanoir. a civil engineer at Paris has beer
authorized by the Minister of Public Works Il
| make, at the expense of that department, the
trial of this system of electric lighting at the La
| Heve lighthouse.
For some time past specially prepared slaf
has been used in Germany for the metalling Of
roads, principally in the neighborhood of Han
| over Some of the furnaces in the Hanover dis
| trict make a speciality of a metallinR materia
| called Stag stone. In preparing this materia
the liquid Stag is run from the furnace into cast
iron mouds, slightly tapering toward the top
The moulds have no bottom, but stand on al